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plethora

[pleth-er-uh] / ˈplɛθ ər ə /


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Electric motorcycles have proven to be a difficult sell in the U.S. despite a plethora of new models introduced over the last decade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

Commenters seem amused by the apparent gaffe and have chosen to convey their feelings through a plethora of puns, jokes and memes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

The 50-year-old Englishman was among a plethora of stars lured by LIV when the Saudi Arabia-backed project was launched in 2022 and was a staunch defender of the circuit when it was criticised.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

A plethora of exchange-traded funds now offer affordable ways to try.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

A plethora of tiny voices yelled, “Outhouse? What is that?”

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

Oxen are fattened into plethoras to encourage agriculture, and men of station dress like grooms, and bet like blacklegs, to keep up the breed of horses.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 by Various

These plethoras of all human vitality concentrated in a single head; the world mounting to the brain of one man,—this would be mortal to civilization were it to last.

From Les Misérables by Isabel Florence Hapgood


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